Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

If you’re an Oracle Hyperion Essbase developer, or perhaps an Oracle BI developer looking to see what the new Hyperion products will bring to the Oracle BI stack, ODTUG have recently published details of the Hyperion track planned for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 in New Orleans.
Tim Tow and Edward Roske, two of the most well-known Essbase […]

I’ve just finished up delivering my session for the Red Database Symposium today, my topic was Analytics and Data Warehousing using Oracle 11g and OBIEE. The first session at least was fairly hard work for me as this was all-new material, I went through the role of the Oracle 11g database in Oracle’s new BI […]

Some of you might be aware that apart from chairing the UKOUG Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG, I also co-chair (with Kent Graziano) the Oracle Developer Tools User Group (ODTUG) BI & Data Warehousing SIG, which meets every few months at events such as ODTUG Kaleidoscope, Oracle Open World and so on.
One thing Kent, […]

ODTUG, who are organizing the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 conference in New Orleans next June, have recently added an additional, dedicated Hyperion stream to the event for Essbase and Hyperion Developers. From what I’ve seen of the Hyperion and Essbase world so far there’s a great deal in common between BI and OLAP developers from both […]

Just a quick post to tell people I am still alive. Haven’t been blogging for close to two months now so I thought I’d better show a small sign of life.
I spent New Year’s eve up in Iceland, visiting friends and family. As soon as the smoke from all the fireworks cleared I took on […]

A quick posting on two BI-related conferences that are currently accepting abstracts for presentations but due to close soon. The UK Oracle User Group is holding a Business Intelligence & Performance Management Special Event in London on March 18th, with keynote presentations and four breakout streams. If you’re interested in putting a paper forward under […]

Just to finish off the postings from last week’s UKOUG Conference, I’ve uploaded the three presentations that I gave during the week, which can now be accessed using these links:

Integrating Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Warehouse Builder Best Practices and Advanced Features
Advanced Development Techniques using Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus

Something […]

I’m sitting up in the speaker lounge at the UKOUG Conference, getting thing sorted out for my “Advanced Development Techniques with Oracle BI EE Plus” masterclass later this afternoon. After the fourth night out in a row - last night with Dimitri Gellis and Jon Scott together with Pete and Borkur, and once again ending […]

I’m currently sitting in the lobby area of the Jurys Inn hotel, having just missed the 9.30am finish of the breakfast service and currently therefore putting together an impromptu breakfast of coffee and custard creams that they’ve left out. I’m normally up with the larks but last evening was the blogger do (thanks again to […]

A couple of people have asked me where the blogger do is being held tomorrow night - it’s at the Pitcher and Piano, just across from All Bar One in Brindley Place. If you leave the ICC by the back door, go across the bridge to Brindley Place, you’ll see it just in front of […]